the 70 box limit thing doesn't bother me one bit. That's 240 free items, not counting re-rolls. What more do you want exactly? Do you want to just have EVERYTHING unlocked from the start? Then what fun is the loot box system for you?
I understand that mathematically they're technically fucking us over, but they're actually doing us a favor in that we will actually care about all the new shit they're adding. I do not want to unlock everything on day 1, there's nothing rewarding about that.
I agree they couldn't just dole out loot boxes or whatever, and that probably wouldn't even be that fun after you've opened a certain number of them, but 70 feels like being shortchanged a little much from 624, for example.
My thoughts on it weren't from a desire to have everything now, it was more a desire to be able to get the things I want later. By capping us significantly lower than what we would have earned post 2.0, and (at least to this point) not upgrading our chests to a higher grade to compensate, they are also preventing us from having the amount of shards we would have otherwise for use on future releases. They obviously don't want us to just have a huge stockpile of shards, but the amount of shards receivable on average in boxes is still up in the air.
I opened 29 boxes on PTR and ended up with ~2700 shards. I spent roughly 13k gold rerolling to get those shards. I will probably receive around 60 boxes for my 624 levels, so we'll assume I can expect to double that total and maybe add a little extra with my 60 boxes by spending 26k gold on rerolls. Let's say that would give me 5600 shards. I'd get some cool stuff from the boxes, to be sure, but I'd also only be able to afford 14 epic items (a few skins or announcer packs) or 3 legendary skin tints (not even the full skin) with 800 shards left over towards whatever else.
For me, that's where the rub lies in the new system. If you dig the master skins and regular "rare" skins you're gonna come out way ahead in this new loot system. They are cheap, you can drum up 100 shards decently quickly, etc etc. But if you want a legendary skin, or more than one tint of an epic skin, or announcer packs and so forth? You're gonna be spending a fuckton of money. And by limiting us to 70 boxes max, they have made sure that no matter how deep into our pockets they might already be, if we want more we're gonna have to pay in a way lower level players won't because their loot box flow will still be considerably faster.
The thing I've noticed is that they've upgraded the status of a lot of currently existing skins to "legendary" now.
Skins that are now considered legendary. It looks like Blizz has touched some of them up a little bit but some look exactly the same.
Your post goes hand in hand with what I posted above. That's another way they have hurt you if you are a long time player. Even regular hero bundle skins have now been shifted to legendary, and instead of being 100 shards or 400 shards they are now 1600 shards.
If anyone is into any of those skins above, I'd encourage you to consider buying them before the patch hits live as you won't have to spend a ton of shards and you'll also get all three tints.
